What on earth is going on within the British motor industry? As we report in today's Post ,Jaguar is fighting its way out of a long downturn, thanks in part to the huge success of its new Birmingham-built XF saloon.
And MGs will finally start rolling off the assembly line at Longbridge again in August, according to the brand's new owner, Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive (SAIC).
Today's reports follow news on Wednesday that Jaguar Land Rover, under its new owner Tata Motors of India, has launched a drive to recruit up to 600 people, many of them the development engineers it needs to produce a new generation of more eco-friendly and fuel-frugal cars.
All this from an industry that too many people have been only too willing to bury.
The knocking campaign was originated by some upmarket London newspapers that simply could not understand why a backwater like Birmingham should still be devoted to outmoded industries such as carmaking when the brave new world of services and IT were clearly the way forward.
Well, we may have lost most of Longbridge and all of Browns Lane and Ryton - but the writing was always on the wall for the less efficient plants in an industry that had 25 per cent excess capacity globally.
It was inevitable that much high volume, mass production, car building would shift to marginally more efficient sites.
But what remains is the one sector of a diverse industry at which British plants excel - making low-volume, high margin, niche models such as Jaguars, Land Rovers, Rolls-Royces, Bentleys and Minis.
Some higher volume manufacturing remains of course, thanks to the deep pockets, manufacturing nous and patience of Toyota, Nissan and Honda.
The fact is, it has taken the Germans, the Japanese and the Americans to sort out what used to be a pretty ramshackle, industrially anarchic, bureaucratic and woefully under-capitalised industry.
That means, as this newspaper has pointed out before, we should no longer talk about the "British car industry" but "the car industry in Britain".
There's no shame in that. Especially when you consider that more than 70 per cent of the vehicles built here are exported. In a truly global industry this country is more than holding its own.
What's needed now is for that message to percolate through the education system in order to convince many more young people that there's a future for them in the automotive industry.
